Stick around folks, in this column I’m going to explain 18th-century trade policy, with an emphasis on the theories of ...
That’s right, the icy continent was first discovered 200 years ago in January 2020, but exactly who discovered it first is up for debate. Two Russian ships: the Vostok and the Mirny are claimed ...
200 years later, fellow Wiradjuri man Paul Towney is encouraging his people to return to Country for a summit in Orange this weekend, with events over two days coinciding with the January 26 holiday.
It's a tale that's been told again and again during guided tours of the Nova Scotia Legislature. But is it true? In the late 1830s, an MLA by the name Lawrence O'Connor Doyle was angered by a ...
This year marks a major anniversary for a key figure in American history, and the time he spent in central Pennsylvania. Gilbert du Mortier, better known to many as the Marquis de Lafayette, was a ...
“But 200 years ago, a group of professional scientists in museums and universities realised that this group of extinct giant reptiles existed.” Fossil teeth provided the first evidence that some giant ...
This specimen is practically complete and is exceptional. It is the first newborn Ichthyosaurus communis to be found, which is surprising considering that the species was first described almost 200 ...
It’s gonna be awesome. American President Donald Trump is an 18th-century mercantilist, an adherent of trade theories that were debunked 200 years ago. Basically, Trump thinks that to preserve ...
Across the street is Louisiana Square, there's an open park of live oaks and Spanish moss hanging from crepe myrtles at the site of the state capitol building nearly 200 years ago. Although it was ...